It REALLY Looks Like Alan Wake 2 Isn't Selling. At All

what's up everybody Welcome to podcast now I'm Alex and in this video I want to talk about Allan Wake 2 yet again in regards to sales and I'm sorry we had to keep bringing this up but I'll tell you exactly why we had to keep bringing it up number one this is an amazing game in my opinion it's my game of the year and why I talk about the what seems to be terrible sales numbers even though we don't have the official numbers we can kind of gauge how the game is doing the reason why I bring that up is because I love this game and number one I want to see it do well but number two I respect the heck out of what remedy is doing I think they're doing something at the scale that they are that's unlike anything in the gaming industry but much like everything in this world everything is dictated by money and I do get extremely afraid that number one you will never see an allen wake 3 and stop me if you've heard that before because we just had that play out between Allan Wake and now Allen wake 2 but number two forget alen wake what about just remedy in general now you could say control and control did do bad better and you could also say we could just go back to control or the one thing that definitely would play Devil's Advocate against myself here would be well long-term sales the game doesn't have to sell its entire you know life expectancy in 2 3 weeks and that is true and I want it to happen I want this game obviously to do well long term and at this point I think it's going to have to do well long term because remember weeks ago I was talking about okay well I'm starting to get a little worried I'd love to see them say that the game has at least like a million units I think they will when it happens and people had pointed out you know control actually started slow Alan Wake started slow but again control actually did pretty darn well over time but we continue to get not numbers not numbers but different kind of metric so we actually got some reports of like the top selling games I believe of October alen wake is not on there and that's understandable considering it came out right at the very end of the month now I will again play Devil's Advocate to say if the game did Super super well we've had we've had this case play out before if a game comes out the last say week of a month you could say well you don't expect it to be like top five and say like the sales but when it does that shows just the significance of that game how powerful that that game was okay Allen wake 2 didn't do that well this metric there is no sugar coating it this metric is I think abysmal abysmal and I didn't even know this was a thing I got to be honest with you I've seen like the NPD stuff and people talk about it and I'll I'll like think about it or like retweeted or whatever but this stat is actually taking a look at the top 150 played games on the PS5 and series X or Xbox console let's just say now I didn't know that was a thing I didn't know there was some sort of report that tracks the most played games I guess that there is okay so let's just throw that one out there the sad thing is that Allan Wake 2 is not on this list now again I don't care when it came out in October top 100 150 games if this was not in the top 150 games you I believe would lose steam after you get to game like 25 30 how about 40 how about 70 or 75 the point is eventually you think okay there's a lot of games out there there's a lot of people out there but eventually like say when you reach number 100 how many people are even playing game number 100 out of 150 right and the fact that this game is not even in the top 150 I think is terrible now as has been pointed out right in terms of epic epic doesn't help things because they don't share numbers and that makes the entire thing like dirtier just like harder to kind of figure out right so we don't know maybe it's doing but the joke is and I've seen people kind of tweet this the joke is oh well everybody must be playing it on the great you know platform that is the epic game store it's like no I mean that's the joke right I think it's actually not a lot of people especially I don't know maybe it's nitpicking or like grasping at draws or whatever but like the requirements to play this game I know when it came out the requirements kind of like blew it out of proportion right that you needed like a super Compu in order to run this game truth is you really didn't and that only came out once people bought it but the thing is maybe like average people look we don't all live online we don't all live online not everybody cares about how many nominations the game gets to the game awards and that does kind of move into part two of this discussion where you know I guess I took a couple Jabs of people there but in all reality here's the thing the one thing that people bring up in terms of you know defending or saying like don't worry too too much like maybe it's got legs I again like I hope so I'm not here to say like I hope Alan way 2 dies and like there's no reason to believe any of these people no I'm not saying that I'm just concerned number one and number two you know I've got my own thoughts I just want to kind of express it to you and you are more than free to agree or disagree with me that's totally I'll respect you if you respect me but what I've seen a lot of people say and I actually do not agree with this I've seen a lot of people say well with all the praise that it's gotten with all like reviews with all the nominations that the game awards it's gotten maybe even like the music and all that maybe it again does well going into November and December okay I think Black Friday can help Black Friday I think helps a lot of games games that came out even this past January right like 12 months or 11 months I guess at that point ago uh it can help games in February like Hogwarts Legacy will continue to be successful 10 months after it came out because of Black Friday okay it will help it will help but like it helps a lot of games it doesn't just help Allan Wake and I still firmly believe we have not hit a million or they have not I don't it's not my money it's not going to me they have not hit 1 million units on this game now again you know control took a while alen wake took a while but the not in the top 100 like let's just go back 150 games that were played I mean obviously way more than that but the top 150 games in Allen wake 2 was not in it that is atrocious and I think the writing was definitely on the wall and I mean I kind of saw it but I also like I didn't I was worried I made multiple videos saying I was worried about this game sales I didn't think it'd be this bad and I guess that's subjective because we don't know how bad it actually is but I feel like it's kind of terrible and I didn't think it would be like that I thought I don't know the survival horror stuff right like it feels a lot like Resident Evil do Resident Evil people like want to pick it up for something you know like I don't know I really don't know but I guess to my point of and where I disagree with other people when it comes to the gaming industry I think people are not swayed as much by these things as some think they are and what I mean by that is are you going to go on the PlayStation store or Xbox store whatever and get this game because you saw I was nominated for a tie for the highest you know I think balers gate and Allen wake both did it for like seven or eight you know nominations at the game wordss does that make any average person buy Allan Wake and I think the answer is no I think Allan Wake is so Niche and again like we're terminally online for better or worse we are online and I think yes we see it we knew about Allen wake going into it we've known about Allen wake since 2010 right but for the average Joe and I actually have a friend of mine that is actually really good kind of case study because he doesn't watch trailers he'll maybe watch one trailer for a game and then just get the game and I envy that in terms of like he goes in kind of blind do you think he cares and you know he's not everybody but the average person and here's the thing you need those average people you're not looking for these internet kind of minor because we are the minority so in all truth truth be told when it comes to Allen wake 2 sales you want it to hit and breach into the wider ER like when The Last of Us comes out or even wednes say like a dead space or or boulders gate or Hogwarts Legacy let's go for the really big ones these games kind of transcend and they're not just for the people online they're not just for people like me that make videos on all the news they're for the average Joe they go into a store if people still do that and you know they see the game and they get the game here's another thing that certainly I don't think has helped and again I would disagree with some people I do not think the physical non-physical you know release of alen wake I don't think that ruined them I think that hurt them but like the people that are saying well you know if it had a physical release like we wouldn't have I really if the game has sold let's just say if the game sold like 300 or 400,000 units if you made the game physical I bet you you would get at most most like a 100,000 you'd maybe get 20 to 25% of what you've done digitally and that could be actually way too much to be honest with you because again you're working with a a niche game a game that is is very specific so the game may not have even sold 300,000 400,000 units maybe it's sold 150,000 and then what if it released physically you'd be getting what do you want to say 50,000 so now it's at 200 that's great it needs a couple million right so it's like it doesn't my point like it does matter I think it matters for game preservation and and we've talked about that in the past but I would disagree there I think physical has heard it but it hasn't killed it I think what's killed it is just simply and it's what we've mentioned before and it's why I hope you know I'm like upsetting people that I've done too many videos like this but like it is such a great game for me like I do love it so much but it's so specific and I guess it's the game's fault of its own creation it's Sam lak's fault it's remedy's fault it's like it just doesn't do well and I guess you could say well that's not necessarily a problem you're right I don't want it to change I don't want an allen W 3 to be any different than what they've done you know I wanted to be just as weird just as direct to the the core audience the issue is there is no core audience in all reality there's audience that watches things the old gods of Asgard music video probably has more it's at like 500,000 views right now it's got more views than the game has sales 100% I how much you want to bet and that's like the problem is yeah the videos do well yeah I'm sure people have watched it I'm sure people have watched the cutcenes of mcfire and ice and all them right I'm sure but it's one of those games it's one of those games that people watch it's a game that everybody kind of praises and you you know you watch those people you listen to what those people say and then very few actually follow through and buy the game and I guess at the end of the day that's like nobody's fault it's like the way that the only reason I make these videos or I want to talk about I want to stress it is like I want more of them I want it to continue and I get genuine and you can't even argue it's like well Alex you don't don't worry you know like you're overreacting really because this has already happened Allan Wake has never sold well it took 13 years they had to make Quantum break which at the time was not received well and that game also didn't sell then they made control and that game did sell and it was more mainstream so it took them quite a while to even get a game that's sold and then it took them even longer to get a sequel to their critically acclaimed you know first like big game or max pay obviously but after max pay uh since then right it's like well we just went through it so I I do not think I'm overreacting because I truly my gut tells me I'll tell you right now my gut tells me that do the two DLCs next year and we get a scary like Eerie message from Sam Lake that's much like what they did in the first because I I think you want an allen wake 3 I think they want an allen wake 3 and I would not be surp because they're very transparent he's very transparent I would not be surprised if they are honest and say the game once again Shocker the game sold nothing and we did because like you need the money you need the money I don't think epic or whoever you know whoever they're working with different people for different upcoming games right I don't think that they're going to be very happy you know obviously like being part of something like different is cool and it's something you probably want to be known for I would imagine right these companies would say oh you know the game is getting nominations and awards and we did a musical in a game and that's pretty cool it's actually more than pretty cool right but it's like yeah they can be proud but like we know the industry they're greedy they want money and not even just that it's not even just read they are in a very bad time right like look at your watch look at your calendar this is a very bad era in terms of people keeping their job Studio staying alive and these over ambitious projects that do not sell at all they do not happen across the industry they are stopping more and more and more remedy is like one of the only ones that does it and it's not I believe it is not going to last forever and what does that mean well maybe they're still okay because you know you got control to and that might make money to kind of make up for Alan Wake but like does Allan Wake the character you need to move him to a different game does he need to show up in control to continue his story because people just will not buy the game called Allen wake or do we eventually get a third game I don't I will not wait I guess I will I just don't want to I don't want to wait another 13 I mean who God's name who knows where we're all going to be in 13 years from now we might never get an allen wake 3 I don't know let let me know what you guys think thanks for listening to my rants as always but make sure you guys are subscribe Bell icon turned on and I hope to see you all on the next one

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Length: 13min 40sec (820 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 18 2023